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Lindley Warren, who curated the successful The Ones we Love project, has released a new thematic project entitled Where We’re From. “Where We’re From is a project focusing on where it is that the selected photographers have grown up, lived, or are currently living. The project allows viewers an inside look at places that the artists [...]

Magenta Publishing for the Arts has released the list of the winners for Flash Forward 2008. This year’s Bright Spark Award winner is Adam Makarenko whose work is aligned with the creations of Lori Nix and fellow Canadian Sarah Anne Johnson who was one of the winners of this year’s Grange Prize. As in previous years, the [...]

The Art Directors Club continues with its mandate of recognizing and fostering new work and emerging talents in multiple creative fields. Since 1996, Young Guns has chosen to honour people doing outstanding multidisciplinary work. This year’s competition is now open until June 2nd. ADC Young Guns exists to identify the vanguard of creative professionals who let [...]

Klompching Gallery has released a limited edition book of images from William Greiner’s exhibition Fallen Paradise currently running at the gallery until June 27th. $125.00 — 100 signed and numbered examples, hardbound , 28 pages , 26 color plates, 11 ½ x 15 1/8” , each book includes an original signed c-print 4 x 6”. klompching.com 111 Front [...]

On Sunday, May 4 2008 at Front and Mifflin Sts. in Philadelphia, PA Zoe Strauss presents the 2008 incarnation of her serial I-95 show. 231 photographs will be attached under I-95 from 1pm to 4pm and those same photos can be removed by those attending after 4pm. Strauss wrote recently about how feelings surrounding the show’s [...]

Heather Morton has posted a video she produced with Derek Shapton. It gives a further narrative glimpse into the childhood memories that are crystalized in his series Here. “For the past year, I have been revisiting and photographing the locations of vivid early memories, ranging from the sidewalk in front of my childhood house to the [...]

Spotted over at Shane’s site, Christian Patterson has posted a video teaser for his forthcoming book Sound Affects. christianpatterson.com

Shane Lavalette and Karly Wildenhaus have announced the photographers to be featured in Vol. 1 of their contemporary photography project, Remain in Light. The photographers chosen are varied and unique and should make for an incredible portfolio of images. Andreas Weinand Anne Lass Coley Brown Debora Mittelstaedt Ed Panar Estelle Hanania Gustav Almestål Hiroyo Kaneko Kamden Vencill Mark McKnight Michel Campeau Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard Nicola Kast Nicholas [...]

This has been posted fairly widely at this point, but just in case… Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips have come together to act as curators of a new site which will present the work of female photographers on a monthly basis. “There are more women working in the contemporary photo world then ever before. Their methods, [...]

Pause, to Begin has selected the 15 photographers that will become the focus of the project’s first year. Colin Blakely; Ann Arbor, Michigan Timothy Briner; Boonville, California Alejandro Cartagena; Monterrey, Mexico Hin Chua; London, England Tealia Ellis-Ritter; Barrington, Illinois Matt Eich; Athens, Ohio Matthew Gamber; Savannah, Georgia Shawn Gust; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Shannon Johnstone; Cary, North Carolina Erika Larsen; Hoboken, New Jersey John Mann; Tallahassee, Florida Thomas [...]

“Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process.” “Click! … begins with an open call—artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, Changing Faces of Brooklyn, along with an artist statement.” Brooklyn Museum has [...]

Recently presented as part of SMoCA’s Car Culture exhibition, Amy Stein’s on-going Stranded series visualizes American social and political isolation. Stein’s extensive travels across the US to purposefully witness motorists stranded in America’s in-between spaces form a unique look at another middle America. I talked with Amy about Stranded and her motivations. Read the Interview

Humble Arts Foundation and 3rd Ward are presenting a panel discussion moderated by Amy Stein with an wonderful cross-section of female photographers: Rachael Dunville, Tema Stauffer, Cara Phillips, Mary Mattingly, and Sarah Small. Women in Art Photography Saturday, March 22, 6 – 8 pm 3rd Ward 195 Morgan Avenue Brooklyn, NY RSVP to events@hafny.org humbleartsfoundation.org/wiap_panel.html Mostly unrelated web rant… hey Humble folks, why [...]

Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming was interviewed about her latest work, Little Legs by Heather Morton. I interviewed Cumming a couple of years ago about her series In Place and as Morton notes, it’s exciting to see where she has taken things in her current work. There is also a follow-up post discussing Cumming’s editorial/commercial work which [...]